The third day of the Sanitary Camp was devoted to conduct clinical assessments of children at the primary schools of Villa Ana. In the video, a group of Medical Students are working on this in a big classroom that was set as “consulting room”. They are evaluating the children physically, and asking them questions about their health habits and conditions. They follow a paper-based questionnaire, and record the information by hand in the form. Later that night they transcribed all the information in a digital “excel” data-base in order to process the data. The last day of the Sanitary Camp they presented the main results orally (with a Power Point) to the community. Some weeks after, they send a written general report with the results to the municipal and health authorities; as well as a personal confidential report about each children’s assessment to their parents.

The fifth day of the Sanitary Camp the results of the epidemiological survey and clinical assessment of children were presented to the community and health authorities on a stage in the park. Before the presentation of the results the municipal authorities wanted to organize a celebration for the Children’s Day, as a way of promoting the interaction between the community and the group of students and professors from the National University of Rosario. The Medicine students then organized different playful activities and also served food to the neighbors. In the video a group of students are playing with some of the children.

This article appears as unfolding of a presentation made at the Seminar Information and Internet, organized by the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) in Brasilia, August 2015. With the title “Opening and Control”, the debate also included the participation of researchers Sarita Albagli and Sergio Amadeu.

The proposed topic (Opening and Control) allows you to address some issues that are on two projects that interface’m driving right now: Open Science and Local Development (1); Technopolitical and Knowledge Set. This article is also an offshoot of the propositions presented in a small essay “Privacy as a common good” (2) and reflections caused by recent reading of two texts: an article by Antoinette Rouvroy (3) and a test Amador Fernández-Savater (4 ).

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This post provides some insights on a recent Model Forest event, reporting on experiences of its application across Latin America and the Caribbean and how Model Forests, as a landscape approach, advance sustainable development.

We have set up the open library/repository for publications within the field of Science, Technology and Society. The library aims to share, invite other to contribute and make readily available all the Latin American publications and papers related to the field of STS studies (including drafts, pre-prints and such) whenever possible.

This paper will briefly assess the scope of the Paris Agreement outcomes under a legal perspective, with a particular focus on its innovations for indigenous people and local communities. In order to evaluate this issue, the most relevant outcomes of the Agreement will be preliminarily summarized, specifically distinguishing provisions which have a binding nature from those which just encourage parties to commit themselves or even represent hortatory or aspirational statements.1 To this aim, on the one hand, the wording of the provisions will be taken in consideration – and in particular, the distinction between “shall” and “should”, which in the UN language separates pure duties from mere encouragements. On the other hand, the overall “justiciability” of provisions will be evaluated, i.e. the existence of a sufficiently determined content so as to be able to assert if a Party is complying with it or not.

In the light of this analysis, the reflections of the Agreement on indigenous peoples and local communities will be highlighted.

The conservation of biodiversity is an issue that has concerned the whole world. In recent decades, hundreds of protected areas have been created to ensure the preservation of biodiversity on the planet. A large number of protected areas is inhabited by communities that depend on the use of its natural resources not only for survival but also for their social and cultural reproduction. In many cases, local people have been directly responsible for the sustainable management of these complex ecosystems for centuries. Initiatives Citizen Science – understood as the participation of amateurs, volunteers and enthusiasts in scientific projects – have involved the public in scientific production and biodiversity monitoring projects, but have limited their participation to the collection of data, and have usually occurred in places tributaries, excluding the populations illiterate or literate and living in remote areas. traditional peoples and communities understand the environmental aspects of the areas inhabited by them, which may be beneficial for the management and successful monitoring of biodiversity.Therefore, when dealing with monitoring and protecting biodiversity in areas inhabited by human populations, their involvement is central and can lead to a scenario where all parties benefit. Extreme Citizen Science (excites) is an interdisciplinary research group created in 2011, at University College London, in order to advance the current set of Citizen Science practices. The idea is to allow any community, anywhere in the world – from marginalized groups living on the peripheries of urban areas by groups of hunters and gatherers of the Amazon rainforest – get a Citizen Science project to deal with their own issues. This article presents the various aspects that make Citizen Science “extreme” at work excites group through the exposition of his theories, methods and tools, and current case studies involving traditional communities around the world. Finally, it highlights the main concern of the group, which is to make truly effective participation, and it is suggested as biodiversity monitoring initiatives can be undertaken collaboratively, bringing benefits to all stakeholders.

As part of our OCSDNet project, CRIA is carrying out a survey to identify speciesLink’s usage. The tool developed shows the result dynamically, meaning when someone answers the survey, the report is immediately updated. The report is available at http://inct.splink.org.br/dataUse?lang=en